eli

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eli - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ELI
  
     1. <language> An early system on the IBM 705 and IBM 650.
  
     [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].
  
     2. Embedded Lisp Interpreter.
  

eli - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ELI
         Embedded LISP Interpreter (Andrew mail system)
         

eli - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Eli
  ascent, the high priest when the ark was at Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3,
  9). He was the first of the line of Ithamar, Aaron's fourth son
  (1 Chr. 24:3; comp. 2 Sam. 8:17), who held that office. The
  office remained in his family till the time of Abiathar (1 Kings
  2:26, 27), whom Solomon deposed, and appointed Zadok, of the
  family of Eleazar, in his stead (35). He acted also as a civil
  judge in Israel after the death of Samson (1 Sam. 4:18), and
  judged Israel for forty years.
  
    His sons Hophni and Phinehas grossly misconducted themselves,
  to the great disgust of the people (1 Sam. 2:27-36). They were
  licentious reprobates. He failed to reprove them so sternly as
  he ought to have done, and so brought upon his house the
  judgment of God (2:22-33; 3:18). The Israelites proclaimed war
  against the Philistines, whose army was encamped at Aphek. The
  battle, fought a short way beyond Mizpeh, ended in the total
  defeat of Israel. Four thousand of them fell in "battle array".
  They now sought safety in having the "ark of the covenant of the
  Lord" among them. They fetched it from Shiloh, and Hophni and
  Phinehas accompanied it. This was the first time since the
  settlement of Israel in Canaan that the ark had been removed
  from the sanctuary. The Philistines put themselves again in
  array against Israel, and in the battle which ensued "Israel was
  smitten, and there was a very great slaughter." The tidings of
  this great disaster were speedily conveyed to Shiloh, about 20
  miles distant, by a messenger, a Benjamite from the army. There
  Eli sat outside the gate of the sanctuary by the wayside,
  anxiously waiting for tidings from the battle-field. The full
  extent of the national calamity was speedily made known to him:
  "Israel is fled before the Philistines, there has also been a
  great slaughter among the people, thy two sons Hophni and
  Phinehas are dead, and the ark of God is taken" (1 Sam.
  4:12-18). When the old man, whose eyes were "stiffened" (i.e.,
  fixed, as of a blind eye unaffected by the light) with age,
  heard this sad story of woe, he fell backward from off his seat
  and died, being ninety and eight years old. (See ITHAMAR.)
  
    Eli, Heb. eli, "my God", (Matt. 27:46), an exclamation used by
  Christ on the cross. Mark (15:34), as usual, gives the original
  Aramaic form of the word, Eloi.